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... thing like a mountain ; and it was a great shame mamma would not take me up to the top of it . I did so want to go up Vesuvius , " she concluded , in an injured voice , as she looked up confidingly in her companion's face . " You would ...
... thing like a mountain ; and it was a great shame mamma would not take me up to the top of it . I did so want to go up Vesuvius , " she concluded , in an injured voice , as she looked up confidingly in her companion's face . " You would ...
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... things , for which they are being punished by being kept in prison and made to work for the government . These men are going to pass their term of punishment at Palermo . " " What a pity ! I hope I shall never see them there ; they ...
... things , for which they are being punished by being kept in prison and made to work for the government . These men are going to pass their term of punishment at Palermo . " " What a pity ! I hope I shall never see them there ; they ...
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... things . " So , drawing her inside the cabin , the lady began to set her child to rights ; and Lina , after pressing her happy , glowing face against her mother's pale , tired one , chattered away with that indefatigable little tongue ...
... things . " So , drawing her inside the cabin , the lady began to set her child to rights ; and Lina , after pressing her happy , glowing face against her mother's pale , tired one , chattered away with that indefatigable little tongue ...
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... some of those soldiers who are guarding the convicts . " " No ! Lina , certainly not . How can you ask such a thing ? " " But do let me , mamma . I want so badly to know why they put those chains on the poor men 22 IN THE GOLDEN SHELL .
... some of those soldiers who are guarding the convicts . " " No ! Lina , certainly not . How can you ask such a thing ? " " But do let me , mamma . I want so badly to know why they put those chains on the poor men 22 IN THE GOLDEN SHELL .
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... thing is just like one of the old doll - stumps I left behind in Florence . " The captain explained that the fierce winds had twice deprived the saint of her rose - crowned head , and that the pretty Rosalia Lina expected to see was in ...
... thing is just like one of the old doll - stumps I left behind in Florence . " The captain explained that the fierce winds had twice deprived the saint of her rose - crowned head , and that the pretty Rosalia Lina expected to see was in ...
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الصفحة 47 - THE FAIRY BOOK; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
الصفحة 17 - We do not think these heroic stories have ever been more attractively told. . . . There is a deep under-current of religious feeling traceable throughout its pages which is sure to influence young readers powerfully" — LONDON REVIEW. " One of the children's books that will surely become a classic.
الصفحة 46 - The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
الصفحة 49 - TIMES. A Book Of Worthies. Gathered from the Old Histories and written anew by the Author of
الصفحة 4 - GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
الصفحة 46 - Messrs. Macmillan have, in their Golden Treasury Series, especially provided editions of standard works, volumes of selected poetry, and original compositions, which entitle this series to be called classical. Nothing can be better than the literary execution, nothing more elegant than the material workmanship.
الصفحة 31 - She handles her little marvel with that rare poetic discrimination which neither exhausts it of its simple wonders by pushing symbolism too far, nor keeps those wonders in the merely fabulous and capricious stage. In fact, she has produced a true children's poem, which is far more delightful to the mature than to children, though it would be delightful to all.
الصفحة 37 - Trench. — Works by R. CHENEVIX TRENCH, DD, Archbishop of Dublin. (For other Works by this Author, see THEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, and PHILOSOPHICAL CATALOGUES.) POEMS. Collected and arranged anew. Fcap. 8vo.
الصفحة 22 - Mistral (F.) — MIRELLE, a Pastoral Epic of Provence. Translated by H. CRICHTON. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s. " It would be hard to overpraise the sweetness and pleasing freshness of this charming epic.
الصفحة 1 - These letters are the exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonization. They record the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer ; and, as each was written while the novelty and excitement of the scenes it describes were fresh upon her, they may succeed in giving here in England an adequate impression of the delight and freedom of an existence so far removed from our own highly-wrought...